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| No move to change valley's demography: Govt | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, May 13: The purported moves suggesting that ruling coalition is changing the demography of Kashmir valley have been emphatically denied by state government sources.
Referring to the government decision to keep scheduled caste candidates out of the purview of ban on inter-district recruitment said that eight per cent reservation to the SC candidates in the government jobs had no potential of altering the valley's demography.
In reply to a question, a senior government functionary said that during the last several years a handful of SC candidates had joined government departments in Kashmir valley.
He categorically denied reports that a large number of SC candidates had been recruited in various government departments in Kupwara district.
He said that since the rise of militancy in 1989, candidates belonging to the Jammu region were reluctant to serve in the government departments in Kashmir valley because of the security threat.
He said since the regions of Jammu and Ladakh were part of the state of Jammu and Kashmir there is no constitutional or legal restriction on the Jammuites for serving in Kashmir and the vice versa.
The Government functionary ridiculed the allegations of the separatists that a plan was being framed for changing Kashmir's demography adding that the current population ratio in the valley is such as there can never be any possibility of altering the demographic character of Kashmir province. Another senior government officer said that since the separatists and the opposition PDP had no issue to incite people to take to the streets they had started raking up the issue of change in demography in the valley which was baseless. He explained that the main idea behind keeping the SC candidates out of the purview of the ban on inter-district recruitment was to enable this weaker section of the population to find jobs in all the districts of the Jammu region.
He said that majority of the SCs lived only in the Jammu region and hence the Kashmiri separatists had no reason to believe that if a handful of SC candidates were able to get jobs in some areas in the valley it would amount to altering Kashmir province's demography. Leadership of the National Conference and the Congress has already appealed to the people in the state not to fall prey to the canards being circulated by the separatists.
Number of NC and Congress leaders said that the separatists and the PDP were trying to blow even non issues out of proportion simply to incite people to violence. These leaders have requested Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to give a free hand to the security forces to deal firmly with those who tried to destabilise peace by resorting to stone pelting.
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